254 Rev. T. A. Marshall's monograph of 



antennfe are not so stout, the flagelhim is more or less 

 rufous underneath, and the apical joints are almost 

 twice as long as hroad ; the mesopleurae and pectus are 

 less visibly punctulate ; the metathorax more finely 

 rugulose; segment 2, and sometimes 1, is narrowly 

 margined with testaceous ; the belly in front is pale 

 instead of black ; segment 3 is never absolutely smooth, 

 but always slightly aciculated ; the terebra is longer and 

 more slender ; the hind femora and tibise are always 

 dusky at the apex, and the joints of the tarsi testaceous 

 at the base ; the wings are more ample, and the 2d 

 cubital areolet, if completed, would not be stirrup- 

 shaped, as in glohatm, but triangular. 



Common; usually attacking Vanessa Atalanta, L., 

 and several times bred by Bignell, as also by Norgate, 

 Fitch and Sotheby, and by Giraud in France. Bignell 

 has also obtained it from Tlypcna pwhoscidalis, L. ; and 

 Elisha from Dicrorrhampha tunaccti, Ste, A single ? bred 

 by Elisha from Sericoris euphorhiana, Freyer, June 9th, is 

 only 1|- lin. long, and its terebra one-third the length of 

 the abdomen. According to Reinhard it likewise infests 

 Vanessa cardui, L., Cacullia scrophnlarice, Esp., C 

 verhasci, L., and Spilodes verticalis, L. Brischke bred it 

 from ;S'. verticalis, L., and Phoxopteryx derasana, Hiib. ; 

 Giraud from Acronycta rumicis, L., and Tortrix riridana, 

 L. Cocoons white, somewhat woolly, and with one half 

 more opaque than the other. 



14. Microgaster glohatus, Nees. 



Microgaster glohatus, Nees, Mon., i., 163 ; Hal., Ent. 

 Mag., ii., 237; Wesm., Nouv. Mem. Ac. Brux., 

 1837, p. 31, pi., f. c; Euthe, Berl. ent. Zeit., 

 1800, p. 120, <y ? . The synonymy found in all 

 older writers is doubtful. 

 Black ; palpi pale, with 2 basal joints dusky ; antennaa wholly 

 black ; belly black, or only slightly pellucent at the base ; legs 

 rufous, except the coxae and upper trochanters ; hind femora some- 

 times at the apex, with their tarsi, fuscous. Wings fumato-hj-aline, 

 darker at the apex, squamulaj and stigma blackish, uervures 

 fuscous. Face dull, thickly punctulate. Mesothorax and pleurae 

 finely and thickly punctulate, subrugulose ; scutellum more 

 sparingly, rather shining; metathorax rugulose, subreticulated, 

 carinated. Abdomen more or less depressed, somewhat narrowed 

 at the base and apex; segments 1 — 2 rugose, subreticulated, 



